“Santa Clara, California, September 13, 2011 – Six of every 10 Americans are on course to outlive their money – and the rest need to make sure they don’t. Me&MyMoney is an innovative web-based program that will enable its members to live the life they want – and have money left over.
The Minneapolis-based company unveiled its revolutionary program at the DEMO Fall 2011 Conference today.”
“Parnell is working with agency CIOs and chief financial officers to inventory state IT assets and find out how much money the state is spending to purchase and maintain its digital communications. She does not know that answer, nor does she know how many various and possibly incompatible IT systems are operating in the state’s 70 or so agencies, bureaus and boards.”
3M said in a news release that there is a growing, unmet requirement for mobile device displays that have long battery lives and excellent indoor/outdoor readability.
“Pixel Qi’s unique technology platform eliminates the need for trade-offs and enables high quality, outdoor or sunlight viewing with excellent battery life and portability in one device,” 3M said.
In this morning’s dead-trees edition of the StarTribune, a full page ad appeared announcing the availability of the StarTribune iPad app. Downloading and launching it presents you with a clean, easy to use interface, optimized for a tablet-sized device.
Offering a complimentary subscription until October 16th, the StarTribune iPad app joins many daily newspapers who are hoping that tablet access will shift people away from newsprint versions and bring in non-newspapers readers (i.e., the under-35 crowd). Ironically the current StarTribune website offers a great experience already on an iPad, so it will remain to be seen if people will choose a native iPad app over the website itself.
Across Minnesota every year, hundreds of companies upgrade their computer hardware systems every 12-24 months.
Meanwhile, many public schools and learning centers offer our future workforce computer systems that are 8-10 years old.
Working to bridge the gap is Minnesota Computers for Schools (MCFS), a nonprofit that, through a partnership with the Minnesota Correctional Facility-Stillwater, has been refurbishing and reselling enterprise hardware to schools since 1997.